Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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1.6KThe Revolution That Restorative Detention Can Be
“This doesn’t look like any detention I ever seen!” Marcus says about the ring of chairs I’ve set up for our school’s...
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1.7KRedouble Efforts to Help More Students Graduate
Just 10 years ago, the nation’s on-time high school graduation rate was hovering around 70 percent, where it had been stuck for...
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2.1KPersonal Development for the OST Workforce: A Shift in Focus for a Growing Field
Professional development in the out-of-school-time (OST) field has been on an evolutionary curve in recent times.
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1.2KIn the Wake of Racial Injustice … What Should Youth Workers Do?
This editorial is based on a series of Facebook posts that occurred in the wake of the deaths of Alton Sterling and...
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2.4KAnger Management and the Code of the Street
The room was stuffy and hot, the scent of stale snack foods hung in the air and the boys in the anger...
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5.8KWe Need to Understand How to Provide Trauma-informed Care
The philosophy of trauma-informed care is becoming more and more embedded in the philosophies and practices of child-serving agencies.
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1.5KHow Can We Protect Teen Workers from Occupational Dangers?
There is a shocking variety to the way teens die or are injured in the workplace. You can help protect young workers...
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2.4KIt Takes Zero Intelligence to Still Support Zero Tolerance in Schools
It doesn’t matter how great the teachers are or how much money we throw at education if we don’t configure our systems...
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1.2KTeaching Moment: Police Brutality and Raising a Black Son
What is happening right before our children’s eyes is the very R-rated stuff they’re not allowed to see at the movie theaters....
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1.5KCongress Takes a Step Back in Fight to Reduce Childhood Hunger
It is essential that Congress works to improve and expand these proven programs rather than put children at greater risk of hunger...
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1.4KIncarcerated Youth Not Free Even After Their Release
At our country’s 240th birthday, I am reminded of our forefathers’ preamble to the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to...
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978Increase Investment for Youth Intervention Services To Combat Legislative Gridlock
Lawmakers need to understand that their current responses to limited resources are ignoring the needs of youth. By failing to look at...
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2.2KThe Importance of Confidentiality for Effective SBIRT Interventions for Teens
For the SBIRT model to work, an open and honest conversation must occur between a young person and practitioner. But for a...
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1.1KProtecting the Planet: Summer Programs Are a Great Place to Start
Working with youth in summer programs is a great opportunity to teach about protecting the planet. It’s essential that we teach them...
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3.3KStop TANF from Being the Child Welfare Slush Fund
In the great debate over child welfare finance reform, few are paying attention to one of the biggest scandals surrounding how we...
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3.0KImplicit Bias: More Than Just a Few Bad Apples
Youth of color experience the worst outcomes in every youth-serving system, including law enforcement, child welfare and education, the data show conclusively.
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1.5KHow Youth Workers and Organizations Can be Real Allies to LGBT Youth
Moments like this define my job as an ally. As facilitator of the Atlanta Coalition for LGBTQ youth, I’d like to share...
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2.4KChild Maltreatment History Should Be a Bar to Being a Foster Parent
It’s just common sense: An adult's past criminal history or history of child maltreatment is not to be balanced against the safety...
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1.8KEducation Crucial Partner for Dual Status Youth to Improve
National reform efforts to support dual status youth have focused primarily on improving collaboration between the child welfare and juvenile justice systems....
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Ending In-person Visits for Video Conferencing Hurts Families, Especially Children
How would you react if suddenly hospitals simply replaced in-person patient visitation with video conferencing? Hospital administrators might justify this decision by...
